Color Mode in Premiere and iodyne Pro Data Are Changing the Way Creators Work with RAW Media
What’s in it?
- Move from capture to color faster
- Play back massive EXR sequences in real time
- Take post-production wherever the project goes
- Manage multiple productions from a single system
- Keep projects secure without compromising performance
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From RAW capture to final grade, how high-performance storage can streamline the color pipeline.
Color grading has traditionally been one of the most resource-intensive stages of post-production. Large RAW files, complex media management, and the need for fast, responsive playback have often forced creative teams to compromise among performance, creative precision, and collaboration.
Today, those limitations are beginning to disappear.
At Adobe’s Color Expo events during MPTS (London) and Adobe Color After Dark at Cine Gear Expo (Los Angeles), iodyne showcased a new generation of color workflows built around Adobe’s streamlined Color Mode in Premiere experience and the high-performance architecture of iodyne Pro Data. Together, they demonstrate what’s possible when storage is no longer a bottleneck in the creative process.
At Adobe’s Color Expo, iodyne focused on five areas where storage can remove friction from the creative process:
- Move from capture to color faster
- Play back massive EXR sequences in real time
- Take post-production wherever the project goes
- Manage multiple productions from a single system
- Keep projects secure without compromising performance
Color Mode on Premiere, user interface.
The biggest interruptor of the creative flow
Today’s creators are shooting larger files than ever before. Whether you’re a solo creator producing branded content, a commercial production team working with RAW media, or a colorist jumping between multiple client projects, the expectation is the same: get into the creative work immediately.
But that momentum is often interrupted by the mechanics of data storage. Waiting for media to copy. Creating proxies or transcodes. Moving files between drives. Watching progress bars instead of refining a grade.
Premiere Color Mode is designed to make professional color workflows more approachable and immediate. Paired with iodyne Pro Data, it becomes possible to carry that same immediacy all the way through the storage layer.
With sustained transfer speeds of Pro Data capable of moving nearly 1 TB of media in about three minutes, creators spend less time managing data and more time working with it. Large projects can be ingested, opened, and graded almost immediately, helping preserve the creative momentum that often gets lost between production and post.
Sustained performance on iodyne Pro Data offloads
Real-time playback and finishing without hiccups
High-resolution EXR sequences, multilayer composites, motion graphics, and VFX-heavy timelines can place enormous demands on storage infrastructure. As productions increasingly move toward higher resolutions, HDR delivery, and complex finishing pipelines, maintaining real-time playback becomes just as important as achieving peak performance.
This is where sustained performance matters.
With Pro Data, creative teams can work with 8K EXR sequences at full raster, full frame rate, and full color depth without relying on proxy workflows or waiting for storage to catch up. Complex multilayer compositions in New Color Mode can be previewed, rendered, and refined in real time, allowing artists to stay focused on creative decisions rather than technical limitations.
For colorists, editors, and VFX artists, the benefit isn’t simply speed—it’s uninterrupted creative momentum.
Simultaneous Playback Streams on Pro Data
Designed for post production at the edge
The traditional separation between production and post-production is rapidly disappearing.
Today’s teams often begin reviewing footage on set, make editorial decisions in the field, and collaborate across multiple locations long before media reaches a centralized facility. Storage systems must support this reality while remaining secure, portable, and easy to deploy.
That’s where Pro Data’s unique combination of performance, RAID protection, encryption, and mobility becomes particularly valuable.
Whether supporting a DIT cart, a remote production unit, a live event workflow, or a temporary post-production environment, Pro Data enables teams to bring enterprise-class storage capabilities directly to the edge.
Supporting multiple projects simultaneously
Post-production creatives rarely work on a single timeline.
Editors, assistant editors, colorists, VFX artists, and producers often need access to the same storage environment while managing multiple deliverables for multiple projects, all on tight deadlines. This places enormous demands on both bandwidth and reliability.
During the demonstrations, iodyne highlighted how Pro Data can support concurrent workflows thanks to its capacity (up to 192 TB) and its ability to provision RAID-protected storage space across multiple Containers that can compartmentalize projects. Teams can move between projects, collaborate across departments, and access shared media without disrupting creative workflows.
Security as a foundation
The less glamorous reality of modern production is that media security has become just as important as media performance. Productions are increasingly managing sensitive intellectual property, unreleased content, and distributed teams operating across multiple locations.
That’s why every Pro Data system combines sustained throughput with always-on AES-XTS-256 hardware encryption.
Unlike many storage systems that experience performance penalties when encryption is enabled, Pro Data maintains its industry-leading throughput while keeping media protected. The same system that supports real-time RAW grading, 8K EXR playback, and multi-user workflows is also securing every byte of content.
For productions working with studio requirements and security mandates, this matters. Security cannot be an afterthought, and performance should not be sacrificed to achieve it.
What’s Next?
AI-assisted editing, intuitive color grading, and increasingly powerful mobile workstations are allowing creators to accomplish more than ever before.
The next challenge isn’t the software—it’s keeping the workflow moving at the same pace.
Every unnecessary delay in copying, transferring, transcoding, or rendering breaks creative momentum. Whether you’re a solo creator producing content for a brand, a colorist finishing a commercial, or a post team managing multiple projects, the goal is the same: spend less time managing media and more time creating.
Adobe’s new Color Mode experience reflects that shift, making professional color workflows faster and more intuitive. Combined with the sustained performance, enterprise-grade security, and portability of iodyne Pro Data, creators can work directly with camera-original media, tackle demanding color and finishing workflows, and move seamlessly from capture to delivery without compromising speed or creative flexibility.
The future of production isn’t about chasing faster drives—it’s about eliminating the friction between the initial idea and the finished image.
You’re not alone
Data storage doesn’t sit in a stiff corner. It’s tangled up with every other piece of your pipeline, from camera and codec to the apps you work in, like Premiere and After Effects. The moment one thing changes, everything downstream feels it. That intersection, where the hardware meets the software, is where we live.
When something gets tricky, reach out. We’re humans, we like this work, and we’d rather talk it through than watch you fight it alone.
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